1. Data from one high dependency unit supports their effectiveness
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D L Edbrooke and J E Peacock
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medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,Intensive care ,General Engineering ,Rationing ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Medicine ,General Medicine ,business ,Intensive care medicine ,Elective Surgical Procedure ,General Environmental Science ,Dependency (project management) - Abstract
EDITOR,—D W Ryan1 and J Bion,2 in discussing the provision of intensive care beds, suggest that there should be more high dependency beds, although information on their effectiveness seems to be lacking. At the Royal Hallamshire Hospital we opened a two bedded, five day high dependency unit in 1992. The primary reason for this was to counter the recurrent cancellation of elective major surgery when an intensive care bed …
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- 1995
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